Kodak’s holiday pitch for understanding

After the holidays, or any family reunion, I always feel a little down. If your family is spread all over — mine in Alabama, Connecticut, and Southern California — that togetherness can feel so fleeting. We’re all getting older, and the clock on Christmases with our parents gets shorter.

Well, Kodak has a lovely new ad about love and acceptance among fathers, sons, and sisters. How those bonds are tested and evolve other time. My sister and I made our father cry a couple weeks ago, in an argument about the election that spun out of control. I don’t know exactly how we can perfectly balance speaking up for our values while avoiding lashing out at those we love. It takes continuous work and self-reflection, I guess.